Change For The Worse

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

June 8, 1994

BEING A World War II survivor puts me in a generation that also survived the Great Depression, and I had thought that I had been successful in putting all the gory memories behind me.

Not so: I couldn't escape the TV coverage that led up to the anniversary of D-Day. That is a good thing when one considers that there are so many people alive today who weren't even a twinkle in their Daddy's eye then and can't comprehend what it was like to be there and experience the fear and excitement.

Because of changing times and evolution, however, isn't it ironic that an avowed draft dodger could become the commander in chief and represent the rest of us in paying respect to those who honored their responsibility of citizenship?

History lets us know that there have been leaders with IQs of 32 or thereabouts, but the world did make it almost to the 21st century before we voted for a president who on the first day of his eight-day trip abroad would try to persuade the pope to change his views on abortion.

What was that we said about ''changing times''? Or is it possible that there was a Harvard in Neanderthal times, too? Looks like things haven't changed that much.